BRIAN ENO — Before and After Science (1977-2004) RM | Original Masters Series | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Before and After Science is really a study of "studio composition" whereby recordings are created by deconstruction and elimination: tracks are recorded and assembled in layers, then selectively subtracted one after another, resulting in a composition and sound quite unlike that at the beginning of the process. Despite the album's pop format, the sound is unique and strays far from the mainstream. Eno also experiments with his lyrics, choosing a sound-over-sense approach. When mixed with the music, these lyrics create a new sense or meaning, or the feeling of meaning, a concept inspired by abstract sound poet Kurt Schwitters (epitomized on the track "Kurt's Rejoinder," on which you actually hear samples from Schwitters' "Ursonate"). Before and After Science opens with two bouncy, upbeat cuts: "No One Receiving," featuring the offbeat rhythm machine of Percy Jones and Phil Collins (Eno regulars during this period), and "Backwater." Jones' analog delay bass dominates on the following "Kurt's Rejoinder," and he and Collins return on the mysterious instrumental "Energy Fools the Magician." The last five tracks (the entire second side of the album format) display a serenity unlike anything in the pop music field. These compositions take on an occasional pastoral quality, pensive and atmospheric. Cluster joins Eno on the mood-evoking "By This River," but the album's apex is the final cut, "Spider and I." With its misty emotional intensity, the song seems at once sad yet hopeful. The music on Before and After Science at times resembles Another Green World ("No One Receiving") and Here Come the Warm Jets ("King's Lead Hat") and ranks alongside both as the most essential Eno material. David Ross Smith 
Tracklist :
1 No One Receiving 03:52
Bass, Guitar [Rhythm] – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Phil Collins
Fretless Bass – Percy Jones
Performer [A Gong-gong And Stick] – Rhett Davies
Synthesizer, Guitar, Percussion [Synthesized], Piano – Brian Eno
2 Backwater 03:43
Bass – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Jaki Liebezeit
Guitar [Rhythm], Brass, Piano – Brian Eno

3 Kurt's Rejoinder 02:55

Bass [Analog Delay Bass] – Percy Jones
Chorus, Piano ['jazz'], Synthesizer – Brian Eno
Drums – Dave Mattacks
Timbales [Brush] – Shirley Williams
Voice [From The Ur Sonata] – Kurt Schwitters
4 Energy Fools the Magician 02:04
Chorus, Keyboards, Vibraphone – Brian Eno
Drums – Phil Collins
Fretless Bass – Percy Jones
Guitar [Modified] – Fred Frith
5 King's Lead Hat 03:56
Bass – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Andy Fraser
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Robert Fripp
Guitar [Rhythm] – Phil Manzanera
Performer [Metallics], Guitar [Rhythm], Piano [Piano Solo] – Brian Eno
6 Here He Comes 05:38
Bass – Paul Rudolph
Drums – Dave Mattacks
Guitar – Phil Manzanera
Synthesizer [Yamaha Cs80, Moog], Piano – Brian Eno
 7 Julie with... 06:19
Bass, Bass [Harmonic] – Paul Rudolph
Bells, Synthesizer [Mini-moog, Cs80, Aks], Piano, Guitar – Brian Eno
8 By This River 03:03
Electric Piano [Bass Fender] – Möbi Moebius
Piano [Grand], Electric Piano – Achim Roedelius
Synthesizer [Cs80] – Brian Eno
Written-By [Co-written] – Moebius, Roedelius

9 Through Hollow Lands (For Harold Budd) 03:56

Bass – Bill MacCormick
Guitar [Cascade] – Fred Frith
Keyboards, Bells, Guitar [Melody], Synthesizer [Moog] – Brian Eno
Performer [Time] – Shirley Williams
10 Spider and I 04:10
Bass – Brian Turrington
Keyboards, Synthesizer [Aks] – Brian Eno

QUIET SUN - Mainstream (1975-1989) RM / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

British progressive rock band. A kind of seminal super-group Quiet Sun existed in two phases:the original band formed in 1969 who disbanded after Phil Manzanera joined Roxy Music, and then again in 1975 they reformed specially to record the music they had originally composed 5 years earlier. web

Tracklist:

1 Sol Caliente 7:35
2 Trumpets With Motherhood 1:47
3 Bargain Classics 5:48
4 R. F. D. 3:23
5 Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-stick Kitchen Utensil 6:01
6 Trot 5:18
7 Rongwrong 9:28
Credits:
Backing Vocals [Back-up Voices] – Ian MacCormick
Bass [Electric, Treated], Backing Vocals [Back-up Voices] – Bill MacCormick
Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Voice – Charles Hayward
Electric Guitar [6 & 12 String Guitars], Guitar [Treated Guitars], Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Phil Manzanera
Grand Piano [Fender Rhodes, Steinway], Organ [Farfisa, Hammond], Synthesizer [Vcs 3] – Dave Jarrett
Producer – Quiet Sun
Synthesizer, Performer [Treatments & Oblique Strategies] – Eno
Written-By – MacCormick (tracks: 5), Hayward (tracks: 2, 7), Jarrett (tracks: 3, 4), Manzanera (tracks: 1, 6)

ROXY MUSIC – Roxy Music (1972-2015) RM | Platinum SHM-CD | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Falling halfway between musical primitivism and art rock ambition, Roxy Music's eponymous debut remains a startling redefinition of rock's boundaries. Simultaneously embracing kitschy glamour and avant-pop, Roxy Music shimmers with seductive style and pulsates with disturbing synthetic textures. Although no musician demonstrates much technical skill at this point, they are driven by boundless imagination -- Brian Eno's synthesized "treatments" exploit electronic instruments as electronics, instead of trying to shoehorn them into conventional acoustic patterns. Similarly, Bryan Ferry finds that his vampiric croon is at its most effective when it twists conventional melodies, Phil Manzanera's guitar is terse and unpredictable, while Andy Mackay's saxophone subverts rock & roll clichés by alternating R&B honking with atonal flourishes. But what makes Roxy Music such a confident, astonishing debut is how these primitive avant-garde tendencies are married to full-fledged songs, whether it's the free-form, structure-bending "Re-Make/Re-Model" or the sleek glam of "Virginia Plain," the debut single added to later editions of the album. That was the trick that elevated Roxy Music from an art school project to the most adventurous rock band of the early '70s. Stephen Thomas Erlewine 
Tracklist :
1 Re-Make / Re-Model 5:10
2 Ladytron 4:21
3 If There Is Something 6:33
4 2 H.B. 4:30
5 The Bob (Melody) 5:48
6 Chance Meeting 3:00
7 Would You Believe? 3:47
8 Sea Breezes 7:00
9 Bitters End 2:02
Credits :
Bass Guitar – Graham Simpson
Drums – Paul Thompson
Guitar – Phil Manzanera
Saxophone, Oboe – Andy Mackay
Songwriter [All Songs By], Voice, Piano, Cover – Bryan Ferry
Synthesizer [Synthesiser], Tape – Eno